While this has all the hallmarks of totally pumped up ninjas (on a super secret mission), who as we all know are awesome and totally flip out and kill people all the time. I have reservations. As for pirates... Ha! everyone knows pirates were created by the great flying spaghetti monster to prevent global warming.
I fear there is a greater enemy afoot. After carefull consideration and a flurry of domestic calls its obvious this is the work of a mockingbird. Unfortunately there is no way to kill a mockingbird... or is there?
What's the point? If they wanted they could just use a shuttle to sabotage a satellite - not as if there are any people with guns on the satellites (or people at all). It'd save money.
You mean that launch platform that keeps blowing up and costs about $500m per launch. As opposed to zapping them from the safety of the ground and for a pittance.
It doesn't look like he was directly profiting from the autographs, rather he was autographing "in exchange for a contribution of 10 reais (5 dollars) for the Free Software Foundation."
Isn't it possible that animals which previously lived outside the fallout zone have migrated to the, until recently, empty real estate?
I suppose the question is have these families of animals been tagged and tracked over the last twenty years to ensure that they are indeed descendants of the original fallout zone animals.
Why should we tune the ecosystem to our own benefit, when the planet has gone through things like ice-ages which have only served to refine the life here?
The question of whether we should is irrelevant. If we can do something to maintain the status quo, we will. It's the nature of natural selection that life forms do everything in their power to survive. It's beside the point that no species in Earth history has had the capability (assuming we do) to consiously affect a change in the global climate before.
You can bet if the dinosaurs could have prevented the K-T extinction event they would have. It wouldn't have been good news for the mammals but from the perspective of the dinosaurs it would've been the smart evolutionary move. And that's what natural selection is all about.
A lot hinges on the question of whether the changes are our doing. If they're not, we should adapt ourselves, not the planet.
Again one of the things that has boosted man up the evolutionary scale is his/her ability to fashion tools and modify his environment. Are you saying we should throw away the thing that has given us our 'edge', so to speak?
But surely if a resteraunt offers me all I can eat, and (assuming I was American) happen to be able to eat a wheel barrows ammount of food. Wouldn't I be entitled to?
I mean that would be the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film, ``The Never-Ending Story''.
Technically, no. To qualify for the Geneva Conventions as a PoW you have to have "a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance"; i.e. a uniform.
Wrong, thats just one of the criteria that would qualify a combatant with POW status. if you want to get technical
Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one or more of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
As far as saying you'd prefer to only be killing terrorists as opposed to civilians... Well those 'terrorists' in Iraq were civilians, until their freinds and family were killed in the glorious liberation.
While it is obviously far from perfected this might be a nice technology for the disabled or injured to have. Being able to appear to walk normally and move about would be really nice.
And who is going to follow the disabled around proping them up with a stick? This thing can't walk. Wörgötter claims the boom maintaining vertical stability only has a small influence on the system. But I would wager that maintaining vertical stability is the most difficult thing to simulate in this sort of excersise.
More to the point I seriously doubt that if I were disabled and lost the use of my legs, I would want something that just simulated the ability to walk, it would really be quite useless. The only possible way I could forsee it being used is if you hung the legs on the side of a wheel chair *shudder* how degrading.
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I fear there is a greater enemy afoot. After carefull consideration and a flurry of domestic calls its obvious this is the work of a mockingbird. Unfortunately there is no way to kill a mockingbird... or is there?
Play by play
I've had a gadget that does this for about 22 years.
I call it the tounge (patent pending)
You must be new here.
Will it be funny?
You mean that launch platform that keeps blowing up and costs about $500m per launch. As opposed to zapping them from the safety of the ground and for a pittance.
1. Clone my RFID chip. 2. Profit!
Not quite Microsoft evil.
Terrorism.
How were they addressed?
TERRORISTS WANT TO KILL YOU!!!!
Why, the internet of course!
I suppose the question is have these families of animals been tagged and tracked over the last twenty years to ensure that they are indeed descendants of the original fallout zone animals.
That's why I said, "to consiously affect a change in the global climate"
The question of whether we should is irrelevant. If we can do something to maintain the status quo, we will. It's the nature of natural selection that life forms do everything in their power to survive. It's beside the point that no species in Earth history has had the capability (assuming we do) to consiously affect a change in the global climate before.
You can bet if the dinosaurs could have prevented the K-T extinction event they would have. It wouldn't have been good news for the mammals but from the perspective of the dinosaurs it would've been the smart evolutionary move. And that's what natural selection is all about.
A lot hinges on the question of whether the changes are our doing. If they're not, we should adapt ourselves, not the planet.
Again one of the things that has boosted man up the evolutionary scale is his/her ability to fashion tools and modify his environment. Are you saying we should throw away the thing that has given us our 'edge', so to speak?
Are there really any graphics cards out there that could render a 360 degree FOV?
Matrox includes a Surround Gaming Utility, the latest version of which supports around 120 games.
Especially when they're free. ;)
it runs Linux!
I mean that would be the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film, ``The Never-Ending Story''.
Wrong, thats just one of the criteria that would qualify a combatant with POW status. if you want to get technical
As far as saying you'd prefer to only be killing terrorists as opposed to civilians... Well those 'terrorists' in Iraq were civilians, until their freinds and family were killed in the glorious liberation.But they should merit treatment according to the Geneva convention, basic human rights and all that jazz.
Looks like at least somebody still knows how to appreciate a decent prank.
And who is going to follow the disabled around proping them up with a stick? This thing can't walk. Wörgötter claims the boom maintaining vertical stability only has a small influence on the system. But I would wager that maintaining vertical stability is the most difficult thing to simulate in this sort of excersise.
More to the point I seriously doubt that if I were disabled and lost the use of my legs, I would want something that just simulated the ability to walk, it would really be quite useless. The only possible way I could forsee it being used is if you hung the legs on the side of a wheel chair *shudder* how degrading.
Not any more
Maybe it could have been done funny